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Veri rotti — street vendor of glassware and collector of broken glass — Zompini — Arti #51

Gaetano Zompini - Arti che vanno per via - plate 51 - Veri rotti - street vendor of glassware and collector of broken glass

Veri rotti — plate 51

The Arti che vanno per via nella città di Venezia (1753, 1770, 1785, etc.), by Gaetano Zompini (1700–1778), contains sixty engravings of common, mostly poor people, peddling their trades on the streets of Venice in the mid-1700s.

Gaetano Zompini - Arti che vanno per via - plate 51 - Veri rotti - street vendor of glassware and collector of broken glass
Gaetano Zompini – Arti che vanno per via – plate 51 – Veri rotti – street vendor of glassware and collector of broken glass
Gaetano Zompini - Arti che vanno per via - plate 51 - Veri rotti - street vendor of glassware and collector of broken glass - coloured
Gaetano Zompini – Arti che vanno per via – plate 51 – Veri rotti – street vendor of glassware and collector of broken glass – coloured

Text

Mi porto da Muran, e tazze, e goti
Bozze, impolete e veri d’ogni sorte
E togo anca in barato i veri roti.

Translation

I bring from Murano, both cups and beakers
Measures, ampoules and glass of every kind
And I also take in exchange broken glass.

Notes

A goto is a wine glass or a beaker. A bozza is a glass vase for wine, with a round belly and a narrow neck.

The verb tor, first person sing. togo, means to take or pick up, while in barato means to barter.

See Boerio (1829), entries GOTO, BOZZA, TOR and BARATO.

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Gaetano Zompini - Arti che vanno per via - plate 51 - Veri rotti - street vendor of glassware and collector of broken glass (51) - study
Gaetano Zompini – Arti che vanno per via – plate 51 – Veri rotti – street vendor of glassware and collector of broken glass (51) – study
Gaetano Zompini - Arti che vanno per via - plate 51 - Veri rotti - street vendor of glassware and collector of broken glass - coloured
Gaetano Zompini – Arti che vanno per via – plate 51 – Veri rotti – street vendor of glassware and collector of broken glass – coloured
Gaetano Zompini - Arti che vanno per via - plate 51 - Veri rotti - street vendor of glassware and collector of broken glass
Gaetano Zompini – Arti che vanno per via – plate 51 – Veri rotti – street vendor of glassware and collector of broken glass

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Bibliography

Boerio, Giuseppe. Dizionario del dialetto veneziano. Venezia : coi tipi di Andrea Santini e figlio, 1829.

Zompini, Gaetano. Le arti che vanno per via nella città di Venezia inventate ed incise da Gaetano Zompini, Aggiuntavi una memoria di detto autore. Venezia, 1785.

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René Seindal

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